Tobacco-pipe-charging device.



No. 679,872. Patented Aug. 6, 1901.

D. H. ALLEN. mB cco PiPE CHARGING DEVICE.

(Application filed 0c! 1, 1900.}

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID I-I. ALLEN, OF MIAMISBURG, OHIO.

TOBACCO-PIPE CHARGING DEVICE.

SZEECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,872, dated August 6, 1901.

Application filed October 1, 1900. Serial No. 31,603. (N0 m l.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID H. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Miamisburg, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Pipe-Chargin g Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a tobacco-pipe-charging device so constructed as to afford easy and convenient means for filling from a receptacle containing tobacco without the necessity of taking the tobacco into the hands.

The features of my invention are more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective bottom view of the charger. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the same attached to a bag. Fig. 3 is a central cross-section of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the inner cylinder. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal vertical section of a modification.

The charging device is composed of two barrels A B. The outer barrelA is provided with a hopper a, which surrounds a longitudinal opening I). The inner barrel B is provided with a corresponding opening 0.

d represents an annular ring fitted upon the outside of the barrel at one end of said inner barrel, which affords convenient means for manipulation.

e represents a flanged head partially closing the inner barrel at the opposite end. It is provided with a tubular projection or nozzle f, connecting with the interior of the cylinder and adapted .to fit the bowl of a pipe.

The outer barrel A concentrically journals upon the inner barrel. The openings of the two barrels into the hopper are caused to coincide by turning the inner cylinder so that the tobacco from any receptacle may be admitted into the inner barrel, from whence it is conveyed into the pipe. When it is desired to close the tobacco-charger, the inner barrel is revolved until its solid section closes the opening I) of the outer barrel. The ends of the combined barrels opposite the tubular end f is open, so that the finger may be in-' serted to force the charge of the tobacco into the bowl of the pipe.

This charging device may be attached to any receptacle. In Fig. 2, D represents a bag or sack secured to the hoppera, with a draw string g for closing the sack under the hopper. This is a very convenient means of carrying the tobacco and charger. Any other receptacle may be employed in lieu of the bag or sack.

In Fig. 6-the outer barrel A is provided with the tubular projection or nozzle fand hopper a, and the inner barrel B, after it is inserted within the outer barrel, is held securely in position by a lug h, sliding against a side of the hopper ct.

It is obvious that various methods of con structing the inner and outer barrels may be devised in accordance with the spirit of my invention, though difiering from the precise form shown.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. In a tobacco-charger, an outer barrel and a movable barrel concentrically journaled within the outer barrel, feeding orifices pierced through the sides of said barrels adapted to register with each other, a hopper attached to the outer barrel and surrounding the filling-orifices, thelower end of the barrel being provided with a nozzle adapted to fit in the bowl of a pipe, and a finger-opening at the top of both of said barrels, substantially as specified.

2. A tobacco-charger composed of a bag, an outer barrel, a hopper attached thereto and to said bag, an inner barrel concentrically journaled within the outer barrel, orifices pierced through the sides of said barrels adapted to register each with the other, a nozzle adapted to fit the bowl of a pipe fixed to the lower end of the barrel, and a fingeropening through both of said barrels, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

DAVID H. ALLEN.

Witnesses:

OLIVER B. KAISER, PEARL MCMICHAEL. 

